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The construction industry is one of the largest air polluters. This fact, along with the increasing demand for savings of heating energy, is leading to a growing interest in more eco-friendly materials for building thermal insulations. New thermal insulating material, prepared from the Posidonia Oceanica (commonly known as sea grass or Neptune grass) was prepared and studied. Posidonia Oceanica is an endemic plant that grows in large quantities in the shallow waters of the Mediterranean Sea. It is a protected spec...

Biofilms on exterior plasters deserve an attention as they affect not only the aesthetical appearance of buildings, but also their hygric and thermal performance that can subsequently results in an initiation of degradation processes. Understanding of biofilms growth mechanisms can be therefore efficiently exploited to avoid such conditions that are convenient for their propagation. This paper therefore combines experimental and computational techniques to predict the biofilms growth rate on lime plasters when exp...